Posts Tagged ‘teens’

  • New Report Says Cosmetics, Shampoo, Toxic to Teen Girls

    2 October 2008
    Posted by Joe in: daily health blog, News

    By Bob Condor

    Among its impressive pursuits as a private consumer watchdog organization, the Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group has been at the forefront of what has to be our most urgent public health issue: Toxins in children.

    EWG’s latest report is among the most disturbing of its findings to date. In a study of 20 teenage girls from eight states and D.C., scientists uncovered 16 toxic chemicals in their blood and urine. The chemicals, no big surprise, are common …

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  • Feeling fat worse than being fat for teens?

    25 June 2008
    Posted by Joe in: daily health blog, News

    By Bob Condor

    It starts early, this business of feeling fat. Some of us guys might joke in conversation about the pivotal moment before a night out when our wives ask, “Do I look fat in this?”

    The joking stops if daughters ask. At least it should. Too many young girls who are beautiful, healthy, smart, athletic and, well, still kids worry about being fat. Don’t take my opinion as the only proof. A new study of 7,000 boys and …

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  • Stop insomnia: Treat sleep as a necessity, not a luxury

    2 June 2008
    Posted by Joe in: daily health blog, News

    By Bob Condor

    It’s Monday, time for another work week for many of us, maybe the final school month for others.

    First order of business: Get a good night’s sleep.

    Huh?

    Jim Maas is a long-time researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. He says Americans treat sleep “like a luxury rather than a necessity.”

    Getting enough rest, of course, makes a major difference in our morning alertness and all-day physical perfomance. Cases in point: Researchers have studied the sleep

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